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No. 232,226. Patented Sept. 14,1880.

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UNiTnn STATES PATENT Ottica JOSEPH F. APPLEGATE, OF JEFFERSONVILLE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- FOURTH OF HIS RIGHT TO JOHN N. APPLEGATE, OF SAME PLAGE.

COOKING-STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,226, dated September 14, 1880.

Application led December 24, 187D.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J osnrii F. APPLEGATE, of Jeffersonville, in the county of Clarke and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cooking Stoves and Ranges; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accom panying drawings, formin part of this speciiication, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section through line af .r of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section through line yy of Fig.1. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of a detail, showing how my improvements are to be applied to cooking-stoves already in use. Fig. Llis aperspective detail of the baking-pan. Fig. 5 is a fractional detail view of the sliding shelfbeneath the stove. v

My invention relates to certain improvements in cooking stoves and ranges, and it consists in certain details of construction therein, as hereinafter more fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, A represents the cooking stove or range, whose body portion may be of any ordina-ry construction, and B B are its Ovelrdoors, in each of which is arranged a glass panel, a., which is set in a rabbet or recess in the edge of either the inner or outer side of the door, in which recess the glass panel is retained by a mat or frame, b, ou the inside ofthe door overlapping the edges of the glass and' tiXed to the door-frame by screws. For these panels any heavy glass, such as plate-glass or window-glass of double thickness, or even isinglass, may be used, the glass being, however, tempered or annealed so as to stand the heat. By making the ovendoors with the transparent panel the contents of the oven may be viewed while being cooked, so that the progress ofthe baking or roasting maybe noted without wasting the heat by opening the door, which is necessary in ordinary stoves to prevent the food from being burned. The glass panel beingalsoa bad conductor of heat, saves much heat, which would otherwise be lost by radiation.

In the bottom part of the oven is formed a circular opening, and in this is placed a circua lar turn-table, O, mounted upon the upper end of a short vertical shaft, D, which, after pa-ssiug through the hot-air chamber below with a tight joint, connects with a hand-wheel, E, or a crank underneath the bottom of the stove, which hand-wheel is arranged in horizontal position and projects suficiently to come into range of convenient operation for the cook. Now, by turning the hand-wheel, it will be seen that a dish or pan resting upon the turntable will be also turned, and if one side of the stove be hotter than another, different sides ot' the article being cooked can be exposed to that heat, and the bakingor roasting is rendered uniform As there are many stoves of the usual construction already in use which have no turntable, I have provided means for adapting them to receive my improvement with but little alterations. Thus, in the place ofthe turn-table I drill through the bottom of the oven, and extend through the hole the upper end of the vertical shaft D, as in Fig. 3, which appears inside the oven and on a level with the oven-tloor. This end of this shaft I form with a square or angular socket to receive a detachable bit or key, c. For this shaft and bit I make a baking-pan, F, having in its center a raised socket, d, corresponding to the shape of the bit c, so that when the bit is in the socket in the end of the shaft, and the socket of the pau is fitted over this bit, the rotation of the shaft by the hand-wheel causes the pan also to revolve to secure the saine result as the turntable.

For rigidly connecting the pan to the turntable the latter may be formed with a socket and be connected to the pan by the key in the same way as seen in Fig. l. For some reasons this direct connection of the shaft to the pan is to be preferred to the turn-table, as there is a smaller joint between the tire-tine and the oven, and less liability of smoke penetrating the oven.

If desired, the pan F may have ribs e c extended across the same, as in Fig. 4, to hold the object to be cooked above the central socket-piece, d.

G is an arm socketed rigidly in one of the internal walls of the oven, and provided atits IOG end with a downwardly-projecting rake orstirrer, H, Which latter dips down into the pan F or other receptacle which may be placed on the turn-table or connected with the shaft, so that When said receptacle is rotated the stirrer, by its stationary character, causes the contents of said pan to be stirred. This feature is designed to co-operate with the rotary movement, mainly for the purpose of roasting coffee, thus avoidingthenecessity of cooling the same or losing a portion of the aroma incidentupon its Withdrawal when it is to be stirred.

I is a sliding shelf, vhieh may be pulled out 011 either side of the oven to constitute a teniporary support for the pan containing` the cooked article before it istransferred to the dish. This shelf slides in undercut guidcsfj' on each side beneath the stove, and has in its center a slot, g, (see Fig. 5,) through whichextends the shaft D, connecting with the hand- Wheel. rIhe ends of this slot act as stops to prevent the shelf from being pulled out too far, the length of said slot still permitting the shelf t0 be utilized on each side of the stove.

I am aware that a transparent plate has heretofore been applied to an oven-door, and

I therefore lay no claim, broadly, to such invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new ist l. rlhe con'ibination, with an oven having a glass panel in its door, of the turn-table C, shaft D, and hand-wheel E, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with the shaft D, having an external hand-wheel, or its equivalent, as described, of a detachable pan and a coupling` device for connecting the shaft and pan and'imparting the motion of the former to the latter, as specified.

3. The combination, in an oven, with the turn-table, of a stationary stirrer arranged substantially as described.

4. The sliding shelfl I, having a stop-slot, g, in its middle, combined with the stove having guides to receive the edges of said shelf and a projection extending through the slot, substantially as and for the purpose described.

JOSEPH F. APPLEGATE.

Witnesses:

GEORGE H. Voicrr, PHILIP SPECIIT. 

